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Re: President Trump

The Senate, as tenuous as it is for the Reps, will have to be held in two years as will the House.

Actually, the GOP has a decent chance to keep the Senate in 2018 based on the seats up for grabs in two years.

The Senate election in 2018 will have 25 Democrat seats (including 2 independents who caucus with Dems) and 8 GOP seats up for election. The 8 GP seats include "safe" seats in Mississippi, Nebraska, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

The Democrats have to defend seats in Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin...states that all just went for Trump last night. If everything goes right for Trump and the GOP the next two years, they could emerge in 2019 with 60+ seats in the Senate.

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Re: President Trump

The news media still doesn't get it. They still are harping that a crap load of uneducated, white, racists showed up at the last minute to save Trump. They can't imagine the majority of Trump voters are voting against the establishment, Obamacare, open borders, environmental regulation, etc. That New York/D.C. bubble they live in doesn't pop easily.

Re: President Trump

Originally Posted by RougeDawg

The news media still doesn't get it. They still are harping that a crap load of uneducated, white, racists showed up at the last minute to save Trump. They can't imagine the majority of Trump voters are voting against the establishment, Obamacare, open borders, environmental regulation, etc. That New York/D.C. bubble they live in doesn't pop easily.

Here's the thing on their "data," it's based on the same polls which predicted a Killary, Chillary, Schrillary landslide. I don't believe Trump would have won if the majority were uneducated White Racists, who are a definite minority of Americans.

Re: President Trump

I think it was the factory workers who've lost their jobs through NAFTA (in the Rust Belt). They weren't being racist, just want their jobs back. It's hard for uneducated people to find good jobs. These are union folks who usually vote Democrat.

Re: President Trump

Hillary got almost 4 million votes less than Obama did in 2012 while Trump and Romney got essentially the same number. No uptick in racism is in play. Just a candidate in Hillary that couldn't get out her vote.

Re: President Trump

We shall see what happens. Lots of uncertainty to me. I hope after he rips up all these "bad deals" he can renegotiate better ones.. Let's be honest depending on what channel we watch they'll either be great or the worst ever. Still hoping for the best. Go dawgs

Re: President Trump

Originally Posted by Dixonfor6

We shall see what happens. Lots of uncertainty to me. I hope after he rips up all these "bad deals" he can renegotiate better ones.. Let's be honest depending on what channel we watch they'll either be great or the worst ever. Still hoping for the best. Go dawgs

Just remember that he was a Democrat most of his life and funded Hillary and Chuck Schumer. He's not an ideologue, he's a deal-maker (makes the best deals, fabulous deals, bigly). No telling what he's going to do.

Re: President Trump

Originally Posted by T1

I think it was the factory workers who've lost their jobs through NAFTA (in the Rust Belt). They weren't being racist, just want their jobs back. It's hard for uneducated people to find good jobs. These are union folks who usually vote Democrat.

This ... Over and over and over again this. It isn't rocket science. People who are out of work blame the incumbent. The problem is the press has done a good job of convincing, well, mostly the left that the economy is great and that middle class families are just swimming in the excess of the last 8 years. They aren't. For two weeks leading into this election I watched my hard working neighbors fuming about their Obamacare premium increases. Same thing ... pocketbook suffers, the party in charge suffers.